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Fuel Cycle Week 3 (June 22-28)

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Last week I did pretty good. The first week I cut it short and goofed on one meal, yikes! I don’t know if I should go one more week after this or do what the Healthy Trim Mama’s call free-styling. Free styling is eating E, S, FP, all mixed up. So for breakfast you might have an S , FP snack, E lunch, and an E dinner. I call this the mix-and-match eating . Then again, just eating natural (Paleo) is good too. My daughter Annette wants to go Paleo (with a few cheat days now-and-then) after her Whole30. I’m so proud of her.

Week 3

Day1Weight: 145.6

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with spinach Lunch: Chicken thigh cooked in butter and cauliflower rice also cooked in butter. Snack: Cake in a mug pg. 380Dinner: Salmon with broccoli. Salted and peppered to taste

Hubby got home late and I didn’t eat dinner until 8:00. I was so not feeling good. I know I went too long without eating.

I made some Skinny Chocolate and had a few pieces. My last batch lasted two weeks (only ate on deep S days), so I don’t eat much at a time. Just a bit here-and-there.

Day 2Weight: 144.8

Breakfast: Fat Stripping Frappa (Sunday morning I need a quick breakfast).Lunch: 2 scrambled eggs with Louisiana Hot Sauce (family will have Whole 30 approved Chili).Snack: Cake in a mug and green salad. My stomach felt like something more nutritious. I knew not to eat the cake but ate it anyway and felt a bit nauseated.Dinner: In-n-out burger with no sauce or bunSnack: Starbucks Skinny Mocha with Heavy Cream (couldn’t resist writing heavy, hehe).

Dinner was pretty late (8:00 p.m.) and had Starbucks aft wards, so I don’t expect any pounds lost over night. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m back to 145.

Breakfast: Trim Healthy Pancakes (so good) with coffee (stevia and a dab of reddi wip).Snack: Big Man SmoothieLunch: Bean burrito with Greek yogurt and saladDinner: Fuel Pull Pizza I ended up changing this to a bean burrito dinner because hubby said he’d bring pizza home for the kids and I was too lazy to make a pizza.

People say they gain on their E days, so we’ll see what happens tomorrow. As you can see I haven’t been able to get any lower than 144. I started at 148.6. My goal is to lose 5lbs. I’m so close too. Tomorrow’s weigh in I really do hope to see the scale at 144 or below. Kinda scary with all the carbs I’ll be eating today.

Weighed in at 144.0 for a total weight loss of 4.2 pounds. I didn’t make it to my goal of 5lbs but hey, I loved eating chocolate cake everyday!

I don’t know where I’m going. I love being able to have berries as a ‘free’ food but I’m still uncomfortable with putting together an E meal (not afraid just not sure if I understand how to).

While on the Fuel Cycle I found I’m allergic to wheat gluten. I was bloated and had gas a lot because of the Joseph breads, low carb tortillas, and chia seeds. When I ate the Trim Healthy pancakes I’d get gas as well due to the oats in the recipe.

I use to be like this a lot before I started Atkins. All the stomach and bathroom issued disappeared while eating Atkins/Paleo (having no grains or legumes). I just thought gas and being bloated was part of what happens when one ages , haha, not so. It was from the wheat.

Here’s what I had today (not on fuel cycle anymore):

Breakfast: Woke late had a cup of coffee with heavy cream. Yum!Lunch: Three hours later I had the last of my Trim Healthy Pancakes with jam, berries, and 0% Greek yogurt.Snack: Green leafy salad with tomatoes, mushrooms, and some Walden dressing.Snack: Around 5:30 I was hungry again and had a muffin in a bowl.Dinner: Steak with a salad at SteakhouseSnack: Coffee with cream and stevia

As you can see I put an E meal in there but am not sure if I’ll continue tomorrow. I’ll do an Atkins day tomorrow which means S meals to give me more time to decide.

LOL! I think I need to do what your previous commenter wrote and copy you!!

Congratulations again!!

I went out of town for over a week, did a LOT of eating out --like nearly every day, and was pleasantly surprised to have only gained 2 lbs. Now I am back to following a rigid plan and hope to finally rid myself of these last few pounds.

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I'm Linda, child of God, happily married to my Sweets, we have six children ages 19, 17, 16 ,15, 13 and a 12yr. old. They keep life fun! I enjoy blogging our days for the children. I usually have two cups of coffee. One in the morning and one while I blog. My favorite colors are brown, baby blue and pink. Hope you enjoy your visit!

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